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Luis Ruiz from El Paso was at near the Capitol riot in Washington D.C. on January 6th. When everyone started running in, he ran the other way. Luis would spend years processing what he saw, what happened, and forecasting how it will end.
The book signals Luis’s commitment to avoid the J6 trap: staying stuck in that identity.
Luis’s academic development was stunted early on, placed 2 grades behind other kids his age for being born across the border in Cuidad Juarez. By the time Luis reaches advanced placement in sixth grade, he’s lost all interest in school. A downward slide from gangs to drugs to prison happens quick
In prison learns Reformed theology in a federal prison in Oklahoma. After prison, Luis studies journalism, graduates from UTEP and participates in some of the world’s most substantial events in the last 20 years.
Twelve years of investigative journalism documenting the radicalization infrastructure that ran January 6, the belonging marketplace that recruits teenagers the same way it recruits adults, and the network that tried to fragment the man writing this book while he was writing it.
Two National Security briefings and one OIG referral filed. One film in the can. One book finished.
The sword is now a plowshare. This is the record of how that happened.
Luis Ruiz from El Paso was at near the Capitol riot in Washington D.C. on January 6th. When everyone started running in, he ran the other way. Luis would spend years processing what he saw, what happened, and forecasting how it will end.
The book signals Luis’s commitment to avoid the J6 trap: staying stuck in that identity.
Luis’s academic development was stunted early on, placed 2 grades behind other kids his age for being born across the border in Cuidad Juarez. By the time Luis reaches advanced placement in sixth grade, he’s lost all interest in school. A downward slide from gangs to drugs to prison happens quick
In prison learns Reformed theology in a federal prison in Oklahoma. After prison, Luis studies journalism, graduates from UTEP and participates in some of the world’s most substantial events in the last 20 years.
Twelve years of investigative journalism documenting the radicalization infrastructure that ran January 6, the belonging marketplace that recruits teenagers the same way it recruits adults, and the network that tried to fragment the man writing this book while he was writing it.
Two National Security briefings and one OIG referral filed. One film in the can. One book finished.
The sword is now a plowshare. This is the record of how that happened.